The Countdown To Divi 3.0 And The Divi 100 Marathon Starts Today!

Today we embark on a very special 100-day long journey filled with amazing Divi tips and tricks, free Divi library packs, Divi plugins and extensions, Divi child themes, Divi Nation podcast episodes and much more. Every single day, for 100 days in a row, we will be sharing a new and exciting free resource with the Divi community. But that’s not even the best part, because each day we will also get one step closer to Day 100, and on this day, the final day of this 100-day-long extravaganza, we will be releasing the most revolutionary version of Divi yet: Divi 3.0. If you aren’t excited yet, don’t worry, you will be, because throughout Divi 100 we will also be sharing Divi 3.0 sneak peeks and progress reports!

So What’s Coming In Divi 3.0?

Over the next few months we will be posting a lot more information about what you can expect from Divi 3.0. For now, I can tell you this: Divi 3.0 will launch with a completely new visual-editing experience that will forever change the way you build websites with the Divi Builder (for the better). We are on a mission to build the best front-end page builder for WordPress on the market. This new live editor will live right along side the current “backend” version of the builder, and the two experiences will be completely cohesive and interchangeable. If you are already a Divi user and have mastered the current Divi Builder interface, you will be able to jump right into the new builder with zero learning curve.

There are a lot of things that make this new visual editor exciting. When building your website with the visual editor, all of your changes will appear live on the page. You will be able to click, drag, drop and edit the page itself, instead of editing a block-based visual representation.

The visual editor will be super fast and responsive, and every change you make to the page will appear instantly. No page refreshes, little to no ajax loading bars, just instant manipulation of the page powered by React. We are really excited about using React to build what we think will be a builder that is significantly faster than any other visual editors available today. We are building it from the ground up to take full advantage of what the javascript framework has to offer.

This is a huge project, and it’s going to take some time to finish. Luckily, we have come up with a really fun way to pass the time: The Divi 100 Marathon!

100 Days Of Divi Awesomeness

It seems crazy, but we are committed. We have challenged ourselves to push the limits and produced some really great stuff for the Divi community…for 100 days in a row. This Divi 100 Marathon will act as the 100-day countdown to Divi 3.0, and along the way we will be sharing some really amazing resources. Here are just a few examples:

Divi Library Packs

Enhanced by the new portability system in Divi 2.7, Divi Library packs are now more versatile than ever. You can think of them like mini themes inside of Divi, including custom styles, encoded images, and even custom CSS. The more you build your library, the faster you will be able to tackle new client projects. During Divi 100, we will be posting a new layout pack every single week. Our lead designer Mario has been working hard on these packs, and they are

Divi Extensions

We will also be sharing various Divi enhancements in the form of extension plugins. These plugins can be installed along with Divi to add new features, and we have some great stuff planned. You can expect a new extension to be released every week as well!

Divi Nation Podcasts

The Divi Nation podcast will also continue at its normal time every Friday morning as part of the Divi 100 marathon. If you haven’t been tuning in to this weekly show, filled with incredibly useful Divi tips and tricks along with insightful interviews from the Divi and larger WordPress community, you have definitely been missing out.

Divi Tips & Tricks

Alongside all of these free resources, we will also be posting weekly Divi-related tips and tricks. Our writing team has been hard at work exploring every inch of Divi, and they have some great articles coming your way that will help you achieve a deeper understanding of what has become one of the most robust themes in the world.

And guess what? It all starts today! So without further ado, let the countdown begin 🙂

Divi 100 Day 1

The Countdown To Divi 3.0

This post is part of our Divi 100 marathon. Follow along as we post free Divi resources for 100 days in a row! This 100-day countdown will end with the game-changing release of Divi 3.0, including our brand new visual editor built from the ground up using React. Divi 3.0 will change the way you build websites with the Divi Builder forever! Let the countdown begin.

By Nick Roach

I am the founder and CEO here at Carpetcleaninghaddontownship. When I'm not hard at work on new themes, I enjoy writing an article or two on our blog!

467 Comments

Just in time when I just finished throwing my landing page together with a free workplace nutrition guide…
Looks like I will have to stick with this page for 100 days until the awesomeness arrives 🙂
I will do 100 burpees to celebrate!

Luis
May 31, 2016

Kristina, you will end up in very good shape!

Bionic Click
June 2, 2016

so I have looked and looked and cannot locate your day 1 of 100 freebie…

Rob
June 3, 2016

This IS the day 1 post you commented on. I don’t think they intend to give a “freebie” every day. Sometimes it will be a podcast, or a tip or trick, etc.

Its definitely the best looking and promising upgrade. But i only wish it would be a responsive editor that works on tablets, so we design websites on the go; current DIVI is not a responsive editor. Though it makes responsive websites but we forgot designers who design these awesome websites, who cant design on mobiles and tablets. When that is done, i will call it a RESPONSIVE website designed and design both responsively. I hope React is a good way to go and get a responsive editor.

Waiting to see what it will be and hope i will be able get out of my office…. and design websites anywhere i am.

This is an interesting comment. I’m looking to update my site/blog and tossing up between the different features between DIVI and EXTRA. I’m leaning towards Extra for the additional functionality and adding plugins for some of the Divi features that are not included with Extra. For example I love that Divi is full width and hate that Extra is only boxed (for example). I’ve never used either template so studying both options carefully before choosing between them. I agree with this suggestion that if they were combined into one theme with all functionality that would be ideal, but on the other hand I’m not loving the idea of ‘killing off’ a theme Im most likley about to purchase! 😛

I am in the midst of using Extra for the first time over DIVI because I was under the impression is was an improvement.
I am building 100 page child theme off of it. Should I stop right now in my tracks and begin anew with DIVI?

ugh, all of the Extra documentation refers to the DIVI builder anyway – so why have it, and why did I use it 🙁

Love DIVI and all of your continued development ! Looking forward to the future! Thanks for all the hard work!

But I agree… Some clarification on the future of the EXTRA theme would be helpful. I Love what you did with Extra, but it seems like the functionality could just be added to Divi, and just focus on creating ONE super flexible theme… Just use check boxes to enable or disable needed features.

I too am looking at starting a website using EXTRA, [Love the Magazine Style] but with DIVI 3.0 coming is that a mistake?

Wondering…
Will Divi supersede all Extra development?
Will Divi 3.0 have the Extra functionality?
Will the Divi Builder Plugin be updated concurrently to keep Extra rolling.
Will Extra be phased out?
Are Divi & Extra headed in different directions?

As current decisions will be affected by the upcoming development, any information regarding Extra would be helpful…

Thanks for any info @NickRoach & Thanks for the great work!

Ron
June 1, 2016

Great questions asked here, I’m also very interested in the answers.

Combining Divi and Extra would be ideal. I find my self always wanting parts of both.

Besides all that, what a cool way to build up to 3.0 sounds like quite the undertaking, already loving it. Thanks

Yep, no worries there! It will be a completely smooth upgrade. The new editor will not affect the current Divi CSS, nor will it change anything with the core builder framework. It’s a completely new thing that will work right alongside the current features.

Hi I am really looking forward to the front end editor for my clients – I do a lot of school websites and whilst the admin end of the Divi Builder is a beautiful thing it is intimidating for non technical clients – who just want to be able to quickly edit a typo or add a sentence to an existing page. My latest site has 220 pages of information all built using the Divi builder and I so wish this was here right now so I for one will be following the progress of this release very closely.

Once again thank you for taking Divi, Extra and the Builder to incredible heights!

I am so excited for 3.0 Nick. I can see myself wireframing on the back end and adding the text and final touches on the front end.

I am starting a blog (in French) to write about making websites, since the competition is almost non-existent in Québec, and you can be sure that I will recommend Divi like crazy. I am using it to make beautiful, responsive articles and I live it.

The funny thing is that I was starting myself a 90 days challenge writing 1000 words six days out of seven for this blog. Guess I am gonna wait a little more before going live! 😉

Cool!!!! I really, REALLY hope some things that have been discussed in the comments across the blog and web are taken into consideration. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing what the new editor and capabilities of the library packs are.

Here’s hoping that you and the team will also work on “page-common” elements like the header and footer. Now, with the evolution of the page builder, frankly the theme is weak in its abilities to format the header and footer. (In fact, the great bulk of footer functionality still comes from the WP widgets).

Thank you.

Hurri
May 31, 2016

Wow! cant wait thanks Nick!

Sharise
May 31, 2016

I’m excited!

Yakin
May 31, 2016

Hey Nick,
Could I join you make few great knowledgeable, fun reading articles?
Regards,
Yakin.

I want to congratulate you and the entire team for this great work. Every day a dream! , Nick, please, don’t forget to put the possibility of check boxes on the forms!
Thanks, thanks, thanks,!! I will count the days!

Wow. I’m surprised, but I’m not surprised. WYSIWYG editing is the one area where Divi could be improved greatly, because novice users do struggle a little bit with the abstract layer of the Page Builder. It will be an amazing engineering achievement to pull this off. This will have a huge, huge impact when released. You guys are killing it. I’m very excited about Divi 3.0, and I can’t wait to use it!

I just learned WordPress and DIVI a month ago. I’m a chiropractor. I built a new website with DIVI for my practice,which I’m really proud of. It allows me to put my personal, creative touch into my message. We launch in two weeks. DIVI is so much fun. I love receiving the tips in my email and I do watch the Friday podcast. DIVI 3.0 looks fantastic and I can’t wait to dive in. Thank you Carpetcleaninghaddontownship for providing such a wonderful product and kind service!

Holyyyyy cowwww!!! Thats going to be dope and super awesome. Try make it to 50 days guys. Instead of 100. Thats too long lol. But the live editor feature is something we all been wanting and waiting for. Hurryyyyyyy up guys, the clock is ticking.

This is a tremendous leap for Divi and will help me to take my own business way forward. I’ve been waiting so long for this. I can’t wait to get my hands on this. You’re doing a great job guys.
Thank you so much!

I co-host The Next 100 Days Podcast and am also an avid Divi/Carpetcleaninghaddontownship fan. Converted my co-host too! We’d love to interview you or one of your team on the 100 day plan leading up to Divi 3.0.

SDA
May 31, 2016

Sounds awesome. Any chance as lifetime customers we could get an upgrade to the Elegant support ticket system? The support token never works, multiple agents helping on the same ticket means repeating ourselves a lot, you only get email notification on the first notification (nothing afterwards), many times whne posting it says it fails to get a secure connection and your support post is lost. Divi is so incredible it seems like a few simple tweaks to the support system are well within your abilities. Thanks for all the improvements to this amazing theme platform.

Ah, so I am not the only one not receiving more then one notification. I have a long standing ticket for this. Once a while I give it a nudge so support pays attention at this again.
I don’t like a forum style support system and think with the number of customers it’s time to get a real support system. Same thing for tracking user requests, that also doesn’t work well with this forum system.

Great news guys! This time we will get the pt_PT language file? Oh i’ve been asking for this support so much longer, i know that we are not the major client number… but we count and i’ve been with some troubles because divi don’t have the pt_PT language and many websites i make are using WPML for translation… not good without the pt_PT guys, it’s time to fix this.

Along the same line, the nl_NL translations look like machine translations and they are really bad in the Divi builder. Please hire a professional translation service or introduce an option where the community can help translating.

I have a ticket since December 2015 about bad (completely incorrect) translations. The support guy said that there will be an option for community translation but it still isn’t there. Nor are these wrong translations fixed.

Looks like 100 days of pure excitement. This kind of information, update aside, will be received with what I expect to be a joyous thunder. I’m not a coder, not a CSS person. But the stuff I can create with DIVI is amazing. No wonder people with a little experience are doing such great stuff

I’m super, super excited, Nick! I’m relatively new to WordPress, and am doing this just for myself as I work out my market, etc. I do love design, though, and so with each improvement you make, it gets closer and closer to what I actually need it to be. The visual editor sounds like what I’ve been wishing for since I jumped onboard last year.

Coincidentally, just this morning, I planned on asking if/when you’d make the font styles themselves (and not just the name of the font) show when choosing fonts other than the default, if you know what I mean. Right now, it’s a sort of dropbox, where the name of each font is actually in the same font, whereas, on a mac, for example, each font name uses that font so you can quickly ignore the ones that don’t interest you.

Will this be addressed with Divi 3? (sounds like the visual editor might do this).

What a great suggestion! I know that it’s super annoying trying to jump between the names of fonts on Google Fonts or word processors and then try and find a match in Divi that works. Now you just have to change the font, update, refresh, change the font, update, refresh, etc. until you find the one that works.

Nick Roach
May 31, 2016

The visual editor will address this, since all changes you make will appear instantly 🙂

Did not realize that an update was on the way. I’ve been using Carpetcleaninghaddontownship for a few years now, but tried Divi a few times before and couldn’t get comfortable with it. Only about 6 weeks ago did I finally start using it and rehabbing my existing sites with it. I very much look forward to seeing what 3.0 has to offer!

This is really exciting. 100 days… I can’t wait that long ha ha.
No no … it’s great idea to have the 100 day build up. Awesome. And thank you.

Divi theme… Can you tell me, will the new Divi theme have hooks and filters – like we have in other frameworks… So we can REALLY call Divi a framework for example. I stopped using Divi theme about a year ago and switched to Genesis and GeneratePress – because of hooks / filters.
It feels like Divi is great for designers, but less so for developers.

Divi builder – This I am very excited about. I use both Divi builder and Beaver Builder…tried the rest too, and IMHO Divi Builder & Beaver Builder are heads above the rest. Both have certain benefits over the other which I based my choice upon project by project, I think this competition can only be an excellent thing for us the users of these fantastic tools.

And the Divi nation podcast…It’s awesome. Thank you.

Paul

Nick Roach
May 31, 2016

This is something we plan to work on after 3.0. Right now we have 3.1 planned as our “developer update,” where we will be creating developer documentation and improving extensibility within the framework.

If you disable Beaver Builder after you built a page, all the text and images content will go back into the WordPress editor. Divi currently does not. Like Paul I use Genesis. If you disable Divi, the website is a mess.

Love your suggestions! One thing I’d love to see in the Divi Contact Form would be the ability to have drop down menu of choices and depending on what choice they pick determines the department that receives that email.

This is incredibly exciting! I knew the day I clicked and became a lifetime member was the best business decision I had made to date – and it’s proving to still be!

One request I have is a lot more flexibility and customization when it comes to the header/navigation of Divi. I still feel like I’m boxed in and would love to easily be able to make changes and have the site stand apart from every other site with a nav bar across the top of the site. I can’t wait to see all the things that Divi3 has to offer!

Keep up the great work! Your support forum is the BEST I have ever seen. Your products continue to improve with each update. You have a winning team!

Jay
May 31, 2016

Sounds great.

Because you said the “Divi Builder,” I’m assuming that the frontend editor will work with the Divi plugin as well as the Divi theme. Is that right?

Nick Roach
May 31, 2016

Yep, and Extra too. Everything that is currently powered by the Divi Builder framework will be upgraded to support the new visual editor.

Congratulations. This all sounds very exciting. I’m a lifetime member and build sites for clients then continue to host and manage them.

When I first started in WP I used Headway 1.5. Their upgrades left be behind at v3 with dozens of sites stuck in v2. Then I moved on to Pagelines just when DMS came out. I have sites in v1 and v2. In both cases there was no way to EASILY and seamlessly continue upgrading client sites w/o requiring some makeover work that clients are not interested in paying for. So I would only start new sites in the new version. The problem with that is I now have to manage sites in so many different iterations of each theme and be careful not to upgrade accidentally to a version that will break a site!

All that is to say I seriously hope and pray your Divi v3 will allow us to upgrade existing sites to it without risk or needing to start over! THANK YOU for a GREAT tool.

Nick Roach
May 31, 2016

Don’t worry, upgrading to Divi 3.0 should be very smooth. We are not changing anything that will affect your current site. We are simply introducing a new way to work with your builder content 🙂

S Ahmed
May 31, 2016

Hi, I want to purchase a license, developer or lifetime access. Basically I will use divi theme to create clients websites. If I purchase a license it is possible to remove footer copyright information/credit info of Carpetcleaninghaddontownship and use mine?

BIG QUESTION !
if we use the actual version of divi, will divi 3 works on the website made with the previous divi WITHOUT STARTING ALL AGAIN TO ZERO ????? Because I’m fed up with this kind of upgrades where you are obliged to start all again. Please reply !!!!

Nick Roach
May 31, 2016

Don’t worry, upgrading to Divi 3.0 will be a smooth transition. We are not changing anything drastic, just adding something new that will work right alongside the current builder. It’s just a new way to build, but the stuff you are building is the same. You don’t have to worry about your Child Themes breaking, or your current layouts changing.

I can not wait, 99 days seems too far away lol I wasted money on BeTheme before discovering Divi and could not believe how much was offered for the same price. For SEO’s building a PBN network there is no better option for theme variations. I’ve turn my graphic designer on to Divi and he’s now implementing more and more for his clients because the ease and clean interface. Thank you for continuing to improve an already stellar theme!

Jamie
May 31, 2016

Very exciting, really looking forward to Divi 3.0. Looks like it could be a bit of CSS Hero in there built into Divi, but better……I hope anyway.

It seems like you’ve taken everything you could ever want to have to build a Website from the front end and just packaged it up in Divi. You guys do all the hard work… and we look like we did it. Thank you!

One thing I would like to suggest: how about a plugin designed exclusively by Carpetcleaninghaddontownship to use for comments. There are so many plugins but it’s difficult to figure out the compatibility with Themes and some play nicely with Divi and some don’t. Just as you created Monarch and Bloom maybe you can do a plugin for comments that blends in with Divi and other ET Themes.

As you can see I am not a developer just a user but I love using Divi.

I fell into so much excitement just reading the introduction to this blog that i scrolled all the way down here to leave this comment!! ET is the absolute best in everything they do !!! Cannot wait for 3.0. Actually more excited about this than I ever am for xmas or birthdays lol!

Keep up the amazing work team. I will continue to support you until AI completely takes over website design and developent 😀

If there was one thing about Divi that I thought needed an overhaul, it was the editor, so I’m really glad to see this, Nick. I’m sure everyone will also appreciate that you’ll be leaving the old editor in place, too. I’m looking forward to seeing it, and to continued years of further innovation…

Yes! I fell in love with Divi a while back and used it to build out a few sites for myself, but never for any clients. Most of the clients I work with are not comfortable at all with technology and the current builder was just too intimidating for them. I ended up switching to the Genesis framework and Beaver Builder for their sites specifically for the front end builder. My clients love being able to click on what they want to change without hunting for it in the back end page builder. I loved the latest options for Divi for marketing (A/B testing) and now with Divi 3.0 I’ll finally get to roll that option out to new clients! (The A/B testing options will be available for editing on the visual builder, right?)

I have been using Divi for over two years exclusively on all website projects and it has dramatically changed the way and the speed at which websites are designed. The live editor (been a rumor for a while) is without a doubt a MAJOR evolution in Divi and the WordPress platform as a whole. Thank you and cheers!

Hopefully the module customizer gets an upgrade too. Most modules have a dozen advanced settings while the customizer for the same module only has a few. And usually not the once I need. So I keep on ending up designing a module, and saving it to the library when I am happy. Only to find out later that I want another change, and then I have to hunt down all instances again.

And a lot of small wishes for most of the modules to give them just that little bit extra power.

S Ahmed
May 31, 2016

Hi, I want to purchase a license, developer or lifetime access. If I purchase a license it is possible to remove footer copyright information/credit info?

VERY EXCITING! I don’t know if you have time to read through all the excited divi user comments, haha, but just in case I thought I’d add my 2 cents 🙂

I am curious if we will be able to install Divi 3.0 onto our existing website without hurting anything – that is the one major Divi limitation so far – no jumping between themes to check out something new (very smart business model lol) No worries tho, I love Divi and probably wouldn’t blog without it.

I would LOVE to see a module that allows a visual drop down menu (like what currently exists on livingwellspendingless.com).

I would also be so excited to have a little more control over the header area / navigation in general. I hate the fact that the navigation bar needs to be above my header, since the Divi header is so limited I just have a header image that I have created and uploaded as an image module. Having the navigation below this would really look great!

Very exciting!
I love and use the role editor with clients, authors, and blog contributors. It would be amazing for non-administrative users to add posts to specified categories on the front end. Will this be possible? If so it would be the perfect tool for creating online student forums. I’m very excited to experience the new feaures!

Sounds great! Hope it’s compatible with sites in the current version for easy upgrades. Also hope there are some functional improvements in the slider, and native support of font awesome and other social icons without having to do CSS or a plugin. Also, additional menu options would be helpful. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestions Marius. I think that a membership system or CRM would be better served as a standalone plugin. In fact, there are already a few great membership plugins out there that should work well with Divi 🙂

Francisco
May 31, 2016

Great advance for Divi cause theme like X have live builder from more than one year ago. Only will be updated to others competitors. Great news!!

Nick Roach
May 31, 2016

There are a lot of great builders out there, but we are planning to blow the competition out of the water!

Will the beta be up for everyone during said ~3 weeks? If not, how can I ensure my team can get access?! We’re very excited about the launch and want to be able to plan and prepare as much as possible before.

Charlotte A. Sinclaire
May 31, 2016

I’m new to Divi, though have signed up for the lifetime option and plan to use it on several personal, as well as professional, web sites. I’m still learning, but I’m always up for bigger-bigger-better-better. I hope the forms options will improve — that is a direct obstacle for me with one of my potential clients, the fact that we can only create contact forms vs. one where people can fill out options about her available services they may need. But overall, I’m thrilled — thrilled that I found Divi in the first place, and thrilled to see so many people here who are enthusiastically endorsing it — which just means I made the right choice when I went the Divi route!

I, like others, am a little concerned as to whether our already-created sites will work via the new Divi — and I haven’t seen a definitive response from the developers as yet. I’d like to know — will we NEED to upgrade the Divi plug-in in our sites, or will we NEED to leave the old one in to avoid breaking the site? The work I’m doing now is REAL work, for clients, and I don’t need to do all this work — I certainly can’t wait 100 days to begin — and then have the sites break and have to start again. So some guidance on this and how it works or how the new version will or won’t integrate, would certainly be appreciated. I’d like to continue designing with some degree of peace of mind for the next 100 days. So, as another person above said, PLEASE REPLY on this subject, and thanks much! And thanks for a lovely product. 🙂

Nick Roach
May 31, 2016

Updating to Divi 3.0 will be smooth, and will not affect anything you have already build. The new building experiencing is an alternative to the current backend building interface, but the content being built is exactly the same.

Charlotte A. Sinclaire
May 31, 2016

Still not clear on if we will need to replace the current Divi plug-in in any sites already existing when the next iteration of Divi is released. I think I get that you are going to continue to support both versions and that there will still be a choice of which to use. Is that correct? I kind of sounds like Divi 3.0 is a different animal altogether. I have one client web site that is quite extensive and which may still be in progress at 100 days. Will it be possible to start with the current Divi product and then switch midstream to 3.0, within the same web site? Will earlier pages get damaged, or will it just be a matter of choosing one or the other version of Divi on any one page? This new release would be so helpful, I think, for this particular client, but the timing is off for me; I can’t wait that long, but if the design is still somewhat under way, I’d like to know if I can switch over or if only one version of Divi can be in a web site at a time, etc. Sorry if these are convoluted questions; not exactly sure how to word them. If you could answer them specifically and not assume I know more than I do, that would be nice. 🙂

Nick Roach
May 31, 2016

There is no reason to wait. Divi 3.0 wont change anything about what is being built. All of our modules, and the base structure of the builder is not changing. We are simply building a new interface to control those elements. You can use the current backend builder for fast prototyping, or switch over the Visual Module to see your changes appear live.

Charlotte A. Sinclaire
May 31, 2016

Thanks much. 🙂 This is very promising, especially for designers who really aren’t programmers. That’s why I went with Divi to start with. Now you’re taking it to the next level, and that’s something to look forward to. I think I found Divi at just the right time! 🙂

Charlotte
June 1, 2016

Oh, just to be clear, will the new 3.0 still be free to lifetime members? Or is that an exception?

How did you style your countdown on this page to resemble a digital clock?

Rik
May 31, 2016

Love it! Hoping that more blog post list and layout options are part of the upgrade – without having to mess with php files and the like [such as putting the title & meta above the image; and making the title in the blog title module actually clickable to that post].

Super excited about Divi 3.0. The count down has begun and already it’s super cool.

Sabra Zay
May 31, 2016

I am a regular user, not a developer or designer. I have been using Extra and it seems like in the tutorials they said something like… if you have been using Divi, Extra should be familiar because Extra is Divi. Will these changes apply to Extra? I really love the category builder. Can you do that with Divi? Will these two themes be combined or something? Should I just start learning Divi now and not worry about Extra? I’m confused. I want to learn one theme and get a good grasp/understanding of it.

We are going to release so much cool stuff during Divi 100, you might never want it to end!

Charlotte A. Sinclaire
May 31, 2016

Curious to know — how will we find out these things day to day? Do we have to make a special effort to visit the ET web site each day, or will we be notified via email or what? Just don’t want to miss anything!

Nick Roach
May 31, 2016

If you are on our mailing list, then you will get an email each day detailing the new resource!

HyperTiti
May 31, 2016

Sounds amazing ! 97 days to wait (according to the timer) will be hard to manage.

I don’t know if we’re talking about the same thing, but React JS is from Facebook and is said to be still in beta version. So any day a major update would be painful !
How do You approach this fact ?

alfahost
May 31, 2016

Hi,

Things you plan sound really great!

We have a few questions about DIVI 3.0:
1. Will the new release include new modules, and possibilities such as more flexibility to edit headers, footer, new fullscreen sections etc.
2. Will the release include more flexibility and built-in options to woocommerce – for example builder for the products, options to enable/disable catalog mode, options to add baners to categories and so on.

I can’t wait 100 days. So I’m building a Time Machine that will fast forward 100 days in which I’ll update to the new Divi 3.0. I estimate the Time Machine will only take me 99.9 days to complete. In that time, I’ll only have to flip the switch and zap, ping, bing, bam, be transported to the day of release without having to wait 100 days. My idea is pure Genius and has no flaws. 😉

Charlotte A. Sinclaire
May 31, 2016

Time travel is the perfect alternative to a situation such as this! I see no flaws in your plan, either, and look forward to your next comment here after you have hopped forward and then come back to tell us all about it. 🙂

Chris
May 31, 2016

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

Is there a simple yet elegant tutorial with easy step-by-step instructions who to create a membership site for my online course the I want to set up on Divi? Please show me where I can get video, etc.? As you probably can tell I’m not a techie-chick. Thanks, I’ll be looking for a purposefully response in a timely manner.

Hey Casaundra, you can install a plugin like “Simple Membership” . Members are “users” and you can add content only available for paid users… create levels, etc. I’m using it on my own Divi site and it works great.

Excellent! You know how to excite designers! We’re all giddy like a bunch of hyped-up Labrador puppies!

Walter
May 31, 2016

If you are on the mission the be the best with the page builder, then a lot of great options of the #1 page builder at this moment (Visual Composrr) will be included?!?!

Nick Roach
May 31, 2016

Our focus with this release isn’t so much adding new features, it’s more about approaching the building process from an entirely new angle. The framework we are using for our visual editor will be significantly faster than VC, and easier to use (at least in our opinion anyway 🙂 ).

Mitch
May 31, 2016

Hi i actually didnt think the divi builder needed a new way of designing in the first place, however its cool that your doing it, focusing on what is built at the moment and putting it on steroids i think is most important, eg new modules, powerful layouts. Better woocommerce layouts, the blog and woo are the ones lacking the most. Anyway i hope these are taken into account.

alfahost
June 8, 2016

Hi, Nick,

In previous posts of yours you mentioned that you are planning to add new Fulscreen modules, and sections to the builder.
I totally agree with Mitch about the new modules, and Woocommerce/Blog layouts.

Can we expect something in these directions?

Thanks!

Edgar
May 31, 2016

Wow can’t wait! The front end builder is going to be game changing for clients to be able to make changes to their website without having to go into the Divi Builder, which seems to scare many clients.

I’m really looking forward to Divi 3. Thanks! The one thing Divi 2 is missing for us is the inability to use the Builder on events created by The Events Calendar, which uses custom post types. If you can extend the Builder functionality to custom post/page types, it would make things much easier and more uniform.

More great stuff from the Divi team! This is our “go to” theme and it never disappoints. Thanks for keeping up the great work!

Joshua Alexander
May 31, 2016

Make Divi plugin compatible with Divi Theme. I have had the plugin clash with the theme but needed it due to the shortcodes when using AppPresser Theme for mobile App that or code in compatibility for AppPresser.

Will these new changes affect the Extra theme?
Is the Extra theme still going to be side by side with Divi moving forward, or is Divi going to strive ahead on its own?

Is your focus for one Theme to do everything?

Thanks Chris

Nick Roach
May 31, 2016

Yep, the new visual editor is part of the Divi Builder framework, which is included in Divi, Extra and the Divi Builder plugin. So they will all get the new builder at once.

Beate
June 1, 2016

I have a huge site based on Extra, does that mean I’ll get the new features there too? I have another couple sites based on Divi, so not worried about them – just the Extra-site. It’s taken me months to build it, and it’s always a WIP. I’m not a coder, which is why I went with your themes – they do make my life so much easier. 🙂

Woohoo!!! I was telling my other partners that I will take a break from getting web projects…hmm??? If I do that, I will miss the 100 days daily updates. But then again, when I come back…something AWESOME TO LOOK FORWARD TO…!!!!!

Thanks Nick and the rest of ET Team for all the hard work you put into all of this.

Trent
May 31, 2016

Please make the divi module editing section work better in IOS. The floating edit section plays havoc with the virtual keyboard and Smart Keyboard of the iPad Pro. Cut paste changing simple links is a nightmare.
I love Divi but I’m increasingly mobile and my only solution is when I can’t do something on iOS I have to use the parallels app to access my desktop remotely. I’m not trying to do anything fancy except update, add/change links,images.

Hi Nick
I’ve just invested in Divi so not yet started to use it, but looking forwards to it. Can I ask if you can make a recommendation for building a membership option and an online course platform to run with the Divi theme?
My courses are video courses. Thank you, Tracey

Exactly what Tracey Hurst commented on is what I’m looking for in Divi. Are there any case studies of websites used Divi to create Online Courses and Memberships. I look to have video, audio, checklists, short-cut sheets and other materials for my clients and/or students to access. I look forward to your response.

The only thing that makes me nervous is the drag and drop front-end editor. I just finished helping build a site for a client who wanted to use WIX, which is supposed to be all “helpful” and “easy” because of their drag and drop interface, but I ended up HATING the program. Mainly because there was no clean way to line everything up and keep the content consist from page to page. Forget about mobile responsiveness – that part of their program is a nightmare. I found the entire program really, really messy and frustrating.

So I’d rather be able to code from the back end editor with the modules. I feel like there’s much more control over all the content and its stylings. So long as you don’t do away with that control, I’m okay. But if Divi Builder becomes a drag and drop program in any way like WIX, that is not a good idea at all. I’m begging you right now not to do it.

Congratulations Sir Nick Roach and to the Carpetcleaninghaddontownship team!

I (and many of us) would like to specifically know about the pricing of the soon-to-be-updated Divi theme and Divi builder? We all know that the current competition, specifically those who offer front-end builders, charge really high monthly recurring fees. That’s very taxing to most of us — newbies and advance users. I am anxious that the Carpetcleaninghaddontownship team will do the same to its customers including lifetime-access customers — lifetime-access for themes and plugins but not for the new Divi front-end builder. I hope I am wrong.

The heart of the Carpetcleaninghaddontownship team is offering their valuable and quality products at an affordable price. It has been the main reason why I (and hundreds of thousands plus more) purchased your products. Where else can we find that heart? The Carpetcleaninghaddontownship team has it. I hope that heart towards its customer does not change.

We all know that the Divi 3.0 theme and the Divi front-end builder will be WOW products of the Carpetcleaninghaddontownship team — no doubt about it. But please update and honestly inform us about the pricing.

This is amazing! I’m using divi on my site (techafy.com) and I just simply love every bit of it. Looking forward to the live editor, i truely believe that will change most people’s experience with wordpress forever.

Well Done Elegent Themes!

Keep it up!!

Pierre
June 1, 2016

Hey Nick,
As usual great news and amazing content coming from Divi 🙂
My question is : are they going to be stronger option when it comes to the header ?
Eg. Easy way to customize the mobile menu (hamburger color, the way the menu slide in etc.)
Or display an image banner above the menu ?

Nigel
June 1, 2016

Great News!! Divi is the best, I love it… Good luck with your new release!!

Ah well! Perhaps it´s now time not to use divi just for customers but also for the own blog! 😀
To this point I didn’t because of SEO issues (source code isn’t that optimized) – but hey! The features are killer! Will have a close look the next 100 days 🙂

Hey there — I am a HUGE fan of Divi and use it across several sites. On one in particular, there seems to be some stability issues with it not allowing me to edit existing pages. I’ve gotten rid of every plugin and can’t seem to find any issues. So hoping that Divi 3.0 will bring not only more design functionality, but also stability. Keep up the good work!

My timing could’nt have been better. Forced to join Elegent Themes as a new customer bcos one of my clients had problem with his divi theme as his old web master dumped him midway. I am just getting a feeling that I have just landed into Alladin’s cave of Treasures 😉

I stumbled upon this disconcerting blog post by Chris Lema – Divi Theme Forever – what do you all think about his take on Divi? By the way, I bought the LIFETIME option, regardless so I guess I am in it for LIFE, still ….

Should you choose to switch themes all you would need to do to keep everything displaying properly is install our Divi Builder Plugin. You wouldn’t even have to continue to use it. Just have it installed.

Christophe
June 5, 2016

There was a discussion about a tool to remove Divi’s shortcodes if we ever would want to switch away from Divi (not that I want to :-)). What’s the status for this?

Unless you are using Divi builder for all your blog posts too, you probably won’t have that may pages that use Divi builder. So you can just cut and paste the text before uninstalling divi / divi builder. Same applies to any builder. Would be nice if the short codes could just disappear though!

david vuillet
June 3, 2016

Hello,
I am a customer very recent and all freshly come Divi 3.0 will be released, God really exists WOW 😉

Steven
June 3, 2016

It would be awesome if the builder would work in custom posts!!!! That way we don’t have to count on third party plugins that don’t work well lately with the newer releases of DIVI.

Lario
June 3, 2016

Yeah!!
We want the possibility of 5,6,7,8 columns on DIVI !!
😉

Sophie
June 3, 2016

You guys are amazing.
Some points:
• I have had great support whenever I needed it.
• Your products are beautifully thought out and sublimely simple!
• Your pricing is generous and accessible – I recommend you to everyone I can.
• Your ability to communicate effectively is superb – You provide such excellent documentation that I can’t deal with any other theme documentation anymore – just don’t have the patience!
• You have built a family of users who love your work and your products.
Thank you for this!
Cant wait for Divi 3.0. Every good wish.

Yeah, Divi 3.0 will be a game changer. UI looks really awesome, and countdown too looks great. The Divi 100 Marathon is an amazing way to share resources with Divi Community.

Tim Yaeger
June 4, 2016

Wow! I’m again blown away with the leaps forward. Finally something in WP that can also get attention away from squarespace for those extra visual clients.

Question… willll visual builder show the whole page or just the content area being edited? Many of my clients want to see how it looks with all the elements, not just the conent area.

Kat
June 5, 2016

How exciting! Will you be focused exclusively on the front-end builder for this upgrade, or will you by any chance also be adding a few much-needed tweaks to the Divi-builder, like the huge need for slider height settings (for those of us wanting to use hero images with no text)?

Christophe
June 5, 2016

Well I’m disappointed by this announcement. The site builder (and not the page builder) could use some love too. The menu system is still subpar and could use improvements:
* Accordion-style mobile menu
* Use different kinds of menus for mobile and desktop
* Full vertical menu (e.g. submenus exapnded in the menu column) for desktop
* Etc.

Also, it seems that longstanding bugs never get fixed (search icon on its own row on the horizontal menu in desktop view, Monarch Ajax calls, etc.)

agreed, as well as the logo sizing and the featured image size on the blogs. I’ve got a huge folder full of snippets to modify the theme. Maybe all of these annoyances will be addressed by the end of the 100 days 🙂

This sounds great 🙂 I use Divi for all my WP sites and even on client sites so you know I’m a fan.

My only concern is that when I test my Divi WP websites on sites like gtmetrix.com and tools.pingdom.com, I notice that the Divi related CSS styles and scripts have a big impact on the load times. Unless I haven’t configured something correctly or making some silly mistake (which if anyone could point out would be awesome), I really hope you and the team consider front-end website speed/performance in the lead up to Divi 3. I know I wouldn’t be the only one who would benefit from this.

Cache plugins, CDN’s and other optimisations can only do so much and go so far.

Divi is indeed quite a bit of a resource hog and tends to shamble behind other themes in terms of performance.
The sad thing is, I have yet to see Nick Roach or any of the ET team address the issues directly, instead people are always just referred to articles on how to use MORE plugins and add-ons (Caching plugins, minifying and CDN’s as you mentioned; which, while not bad in themselves, do not address the real issues that exist with the theme itself) and the core issues are always avoided.

Divi is a powerful theme, there is no doubt about it, but for those of you/us who are serious about web development and understand how much page speed and performance is a critical factor in the world of Search Engine Ranking algorithms, It might be a better idea to look elsewhere, at least until Nick and his Team can address these issues directly and begin to open up some dialogue on what is being done (if any) to improve it.

It doesn’t matter how awesome looking, or fancy, or how many bells and whistles you can hang on your website to attract visitors. If it doesn’t load FAST then people will look elsewhere.

Time to step up your game ET, get this code streamlined and concentrate a bit more on improving the user experience and a bit less on all the fancy dressing.

Victor
June 6, 2016

Great Job!Divi is one of the best themes already.
Is there any possible to include Revolution Slider?Just like setting the wings on the tiger.

Britt
June 8, 2016

I would love to see more animations. Not just for images. Sections, text, video, everything. The ability to choose from options of how a section comes in to the page would be awesome.

Dear ET / Divi team…
This upgrade sounds great… really looking forwards to it! Every day I’m waiting for the ET blog to send me a new Divi 100 update. They are all great!

What I was wondering… will there come some kind of build in Glossary in the near future?

These days for the larger knowledge blogs, a glossary with tooltip descriptions etc is ideal.

It would be great to have such a thing in Divi build in! Adding a list of keywords, adding content to it… every page of post containing such words will get a link with a tooltip… and link to an overall glossary index page.

Sure there are glossary plugins, but they don’t fit in the design / look & feel of Divi…

According to my experience, I cannot describe Divi 2 as having full RTL support. Fortunately it has good tech support – their support staff were able to solve most of the issues with custom CSS fixes. However, I know that any changes I need to do will require new approaches to their tech support. So I strengthen your request: I hope that Divi 3 will have full RTL support built into it from the ground up; without need for custom CSS fixes.

Saurabh Shah
June 21, 2016

That;s awesome!

One Questions, Will this affect or we have to do redoing all work with current Divi Builder once we install 3.0 ? Or there will be no issues updating it from current version ?

Hi, are there any plans to add a Frontend User plugin in the new Divi (or ET)? So users can register on my blog and post a message themselves? There is not much available with a good consistent quality like your products…

Guys you should use tags or some other way to organise the 100 Day giveaway, I’m trying to find a way to navigate this to see how I can go through every day’s giveaway but I’m finding it impossible to go through the list.

Thank you for All. It will be nice to see all kinds of fonts when we have to choose. I just start with Divi and this is really a problem for me. I think it will be a big help to see them. Thank you ???